28 April 2008

Looking Ahead To The Chinese Grand Prix


Right, well after such a seemingly long break after that terrific Estoril weekend, we move onto China for the next round; which was one of Alvaro's top races last year, coming home 3.904 seconds behind Jorge Lorenzo and over 5 seconds ahead of third place man Andrea Dovizioso (de Angelis, Kallio and Barbera making up the top six).
It was a strong and spirited performance - and with a memorable "hard but fair" pass on Dovi, and it'll be good to see him pull another great race out of the bag this time round. I think, on balance, given how the season started, another runaway victory would be more than welcome - though it'd be equally cool to see some excellent dicing again.
Here's the weekend event schedule...
(*All times are local, of course)

Friday May 2nd
125cc :: Free Practice 1 :: 09:00-09:45
MotoGP :: Free Practice 1 :: 10:00-11:00
250cc :: Free Practice 1 :: 11:15-12:15
125cc :: Qualifying 1 :: 13:10-13:40
MotoGP :: Free Practice 2 :: 13:55-14:55
250cc :: Qualifying 1 :: 15:10-15:55


Saturday May 3rd
125cc :: Free Practice 2 :: 09:00-09:45
MotoGP :: Free Practice 3 :: 10:00-11:00
250cc :: Free Practice 2 :: 11:15-12:15
125cc :: Qualifying 2 :: 13:10-13:40
MotoGP :: Qualifying 1 :: 13:55-14:55
250cc :: Qualifying 2 :: 15:10-15:55


Sunday May 4th
125cc :: Warm-Up :: 09:40-10:00
250cc :: Warm-Up :: 10:10-10:30
MotoGP :: Warm-Up :: 10:49-11:05
125cc :: Race :: 12:00-11:45
250cc :: Race :: 13:15-13:00
MotoGP :: Race :: 15:00-15:00


Oh, and if you click on the picture at the top of this post, you can download it as a 1280x1024 desktop wallpaper. How lovely, smashing and generous are we????



2 comments:

abc said...

i tend to become *a bit* twitchy when alvaro is involved in too much overtaking action and sandwiched in a large group.
so if there's a possibility for that i'd opt for the runaway win.

though the guys behind him are of course welcomed to do as many overtakings as possible. ;)

and answer: you are INCREDIBLY loving, smashing and generous. :D

gb said...

...now where did i put that 'blushing' icon....? LOL

i prefer him out of harm's way too if i'm honest!